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Nurseries are encouraged to report as many incidents as possible to their
local council. The guide added: "Some people think that if a large
number of racist incidents are reported, this will reflect badly on the
institution. In fact, the opposite is the case."

We went through the vacant units methodically. Inside was pure filth, with trash, dried food, used cotton balls and Q-tips and used condoms on the floors. It was obvious that people were using drugs and prostituting in this horrible place. (I cannot, in my wildest dreams, imagine performing a sex act inside this disease-riddled place!) Walls were down to bare studs in spots, or had food or human discharge on them. I feared accidentally sticking myself with a used needle.

While we were talking to our squatter, the one remaining tenant came down to speak to us. She had been living in this apartment with no heat, since she couldn`t pay her gas bill. She had two school-aged children, who never seem to be in school, living in this hell-hole. Since the theft of her water lines (thieves steal them for copper) she had been without water, and hadn`t bothered to call us; she had continued to use the toilet, and the feces had formed a cone which rose above the toilet seat, forcing them to defecate standing up. When they grew thirsty, they walked two blocks to the nearby gas station and bought a bottle of water.

The plight of those children really struck me; they are the walking dead. The boy was undoubtedly going to join a gang in a couple of years and would either be dead or imprison by the time he was 17. The girl would probably become a drug addict (as I`m sure is true of her mother) and would go enter the family prostitution business. She would probably die of some easily treated illness after first spitting out a couple of children of her own, thus perpetuating the cycle. I see nothing but coffins in their futures.

Many of our tenants receive rental assistance and can live better, yet frequently even those we think will be good default on rent and damage the apartments. Why? Often we find drugs, pornography, or evidence of criminality (guns, etc.). Strangely, many of these tenants will have Bible tracts left amidst their debris, tracts referencing prosperity theology. What they are taking from their readings of the Bible is a kind of pseudo-Christianity, a primitive magical belief that God can be made to give them things through invocations and spiritual practices. They miss the whole point of Salvation, that it is a spiritual gift given freely by God for our souls and not some method of squeezing material things from the Divine by ritualistic practices..

To many such, a trip for groceries is a major undertaking, necessitating most of their day be devoted to the journey. They must obtain medical care from a free clinic, or the hospital emergency room, and frequently have civil judgements from the Fire Department because must take an ambulance to get there. Their lives are restricted to the few paltry blocks surrounding their homes; they get their food from gas stations.

This is what ``progressive`` social policies and good intentions have wrought! (What is paved with good intentions?) Feminism, welfare, and the sexual revolution, along with the explosion of narcotics, have completely destroyed the black family. This woman had a father, who was probably a drug addict or alcoholic and who likely lived on welfare. In another time, he would have been poor and uneducated, but would have worked and cared for his children. Thanks to the compassion of the Left, he was freed of any responsibility and could destroy himself and everyone around him at his leisure. Because more children mean more government largesse, poor women frequently become baby factories, spitting out more hopeless welfare recipients and keeping our prisons full. These children will grow up sitting on their front stoop, waiting for drug customers or johns, just as their mother sat on hers, her mother on hers, and their children will sit on theirs. It becomes an endless cycle of si
tting and waiting, waiting to die.

Those children deserve better. They deserve an education, a clean home, hope. The nanny state steals hope. It offers the easy path at the expense of self-esteem and upward mobility. Sloth is the hallmark of the welfare state, and sloth leads to ignorance and despair.

The physical environment is not the problem, but rather a symptom of a deeper malady. It is, as Dan Quayle said, a poverty of values. Secular Humanism and progressivism have taken personal responsibility and familial bonding out of the equation, and the very poor are left to their fate. They have been told they are animals, ugly and ruled by their lusts, incapable of raising themselves beyond their station. They have substituted the government for the father, have excused drug abuse and other destructive behavior in the interest of tolerance, have assured these people that institutional racism and greedy capitalism have conspired to rob them of a better life. Is it any wonder that a poor youth turns to crime, when he looks around and sees apathy, poverty, and despair, and hears that it is the fault of wealthy white men?

That`s where multiculturalism comes in; the Left encourages pride in one`s faults, demands the right to continue a morally impoverished lifestyle. Multiculturalism and Moral Relativism produce practices and beliefs that are ultimately highly destructive to society as a whole and to the poor in particular. The concept of ``blackness``, the idea that crime, drugs, and violence are authentic to the African-American experience, prevents an honest look at public policy-and how we deal with the poor. It has become chic to live in squalor.

Unfortunately, many have a vested interest in maintaining this racial plantation; the worst racism in America comes from people who claim to champion the African-American community-civil rights leaders, compassionate liberals, etc. They steal more than money, they steal hope.

As a result, crime, drugs, illiteracy, poverty, and hopelessness curse many African-Americans. Nothing is done because those who should be acting have nothing to gain; Bill Cosby was right when he chastised the Black Community for separatism in the name of ``Blackness``. They have to take responsibility for what is happening to their poor.